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hostibus timoris det susplcionem, maiore strepitu et tumultu,
popull Romanl fert consuetude, castra mover! iubet. His rebus fugae similem profectionem efficit. Haec quoque per exploratores ante lucem in tanta propinquitate castrorum ad hostes deferuntur. Vix agmen novissimum extra munltiones processerat,
quam
5
cum
cohortatl
Galll
inter
ne speratam praedam ex esse, perterritls Romanis,
se,
manibus dimitterent
longum
Germanorum auxilium
exspectare, neque
suam
pati digni-
lotatem ut tantis copils tarn exiguam manum, praesertim flumen fugientem atque impeditam, adorirl n5n audeant transire et inlquo loco committere proelium non dubitant. Quae fore suspicatus Labienus, ut omnes citra flumen
eadem usus simulatione
eliceret, 15
itineris
placide progre-
diebatur. namely, on his part.
1.
timoris
2.
fert: calls for.
3.
similem
pred. adj.
haec
matter the (between dashes) until the rest of the sentence is clear.
thetical
neut.
ut:
10.
per freely, by; cf. p. 141, 1. 9. in tanta propinquitate freely, on account of the close proximity 4.
1.
that;
dependent
tantis copils
pati.
see p.
on 158,
I.
(propinquitas, -atis, F., nearness}.
n. fugientem atque impeditam modifying manum, 1. 10.
agmen novissimum: nameWith this ly, of Labienus army. phrase cf. primum agmen, p. 148,
flumen: see p. 159, 1. 3 if. fore: 13. quae: neut., this. supplying here a future infinitive for
6.
1
1.
6.
-cessl,
processerat
-cessum est inter se
8.
longum esse
less (lit. too long).
discourse
is
3,
advance. freely, one another.
7.
precede,
it was needThe indirect
due to the idea of say-
Do ing implied in cohortatl, 1. 7. not attempt to translate this paren-
ut:
fio.
depending on progreomnes: them 14. prep., to the near
diebatur, 1. all. citra:
to his side of.
side of,
i.e.
14. neris :
usus
adv
here,
keeping retreat.
itiup. placide
pr5grediebatur steadily. continued to move on. .
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